National returns fire on Iraq comments

by Cameron Slater on October 10, 2007 at 2:46pm

National returns fire on Iraq comments – The National Party has deflected the latest Iraq salvo by highlighting comments made in the past by Labour ministers.
Defence Minister Phil Goff yesterday sought to embarrass National leader John Key in parliament over his recent… [NZ Politics]

Labour's hypocrisy over John Key's Iraq comments are exposed daily. Yesterday in the house it started with Question 1, a patsy question for Goff to attack, Goff got more than he bargained for when Gerry Brownlee started to quote Mark Burton and Goff himself, both saying exactly the same thing as Key.

It is clear that Labour's game plan is the same they have always used, ridicule and denigrate the leader of National. Unfortunately for them all their attacks thus far have been rather puerile and ineffectual.

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